Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

Name: Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

Twenty-First Century Fictions of TerrorismAuthor(s): Arin Keeble\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781474478687, 978-1474478687\nSynopsis\nExamining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts, Arin Keeble offers a detailed analysis of the ways novels from around the world have represented terrorism in the early twenty-first century. Over five chapters, he uncovers a movement away from event-based narratives toward depictions of terrorism as a violent symptom or feature of twenty-first century world-systems and neoliberalism. Beginning with the early literary response to 9/11 and the 9/11 novel genre, the book moves through more recent depictions of the endless war on terror, state terror, white nationalist terror and historical narratives of terror that resonate in the current political climate. In doing so, it examines the changing ways literature has sought to make sen.